Naoki Hoshino

Naoki Hoshino (10 April 1892-26 January 1978) was Vice Minister of Finance for the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo from 1937 to 1940.

Biography
Naoki Hoshino was born on 10 April 1892 in Yokohama, Japan, and he worked for the Ministry of Finance in bank regulation and taxation. Hoshino was later sent to work in the finance ministry of Manchukuo, and narcotics and opium trafficking increased the money taken in by the Manchurian government. Hoshino was recalled to Japan in 1940 after the economy of Manchukuo reached its planned state, and he joined the House of Peers. After the surrender of Japan in World War II, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity, but he was released in 1958 and died in 1978.